- Commit to greater cross-district collaboration
- Network with more people outside region
- The enthusiasm of a pocket of teachers seems to be contagious
- Build regional teams designed as ongoing sustainable learning teams
- Seek out other schools outside of U.S for ideas
- Teacher led- student groups. Cost nothing, but offer credit incentives
- Teachers can tap into their personal network to find companies who might be able to help $
- What is working now?- Collaboration among teachers
- Work with school community to identify measures of school success that demote 21st century learning
- The individual at a faculty meeting suggest that everyone go see the cool project
- Reserve time at every faculty meeting to share exemplary student work
- Barrier: Threatened coworkers. Solution: be open and enthusiastic. Convince others that you believe in the value of what youre doing, and are willing to talk and share
- Individuals can share to motivate others
- I can share
- Teachers who "get it" are sharing
- Creative, thoughtful sharing of ideas with colleagues across grade levels and curriculum areas
- Classrooms open for colleagues to visit
- Individuals can mentor others who are skeptical about 21st century skills
- As an individual, pass on one tech idea to your community (colleague, team, school, etc)
- Individual sharing of success
- Take it upon myself to utilize tech tools and discuss with teachers at all opportunities (faculty lounge, faculty meetings, etc)
Leadership (17 dots)
- Hire new teachers with tech background
- Create models of what "it" might look like. Classrooms, schools, districts
- State standardized test need to include technology into the curriculum
- Create non standardized courses that are attractive to college-bound community
- Atmosphere of trust, collaboration, and sharing
- Give incentives for devising creative ideas. Using of new stuff
- Be involved in decision making groups where i can impact change
- Support each other
- Reward teachers for developing and sharing innovative instructional strategies
- Set up leadership focus groups and forums to find ways to breakdown barriers
- Support from admin
- Administrators need to get in touch with what is being taught and how. They should lead the way in 21st century skills
- Remove fear from the picture
Shifts/Culture (24 dots)
- More teachers are using mobile lab with whole classrooms
- Restructuring the class schedule
- Curriculum can be viewed and used as "living documents"
- Bring student work with technology to Albany
- Redefine the boundaries of where "class" occurs
- Eliminate geographic structures location based
- Focus on the positive
- Dont give up keep pushing ahead
- Individual can take risks
- People are trying new "tools" each day
- "Dont hate", kids say it, adults do it,
- Get students opinions
- The "transformed" must lead by example and evanglicize
- Schools need to make time for teachers to meet as a planning team in order to collaborate and share best practices
- Teachers who feel free to share and model what they do yet opening themselves up to criticism
Professional Development (18 dots)
- Restructure staff development by valuing other opportunities than in-services
- Develop a tech team from 1 member of each dept
- Differentiate PD
- Individual just go out htere and learn one new web 2.0 tool/platform
- Set up peer review process where teachers have time to learn together- foster motivation
- Immersive clago visitors- PD0 full day- teacher choice
- Collaborate: create a PLN
- Provide for opportunities for teachers to talk to one another- share great ideas
- Barrier: staff is not tech savvy. Solution: give them opportunities/force them to visit innovative classrooms and provide professional development
- Faculty meetings should be more focused on doing practical hands on curricuklum development. Email to disseminate info
- District is dedicated to tech PD day in November
Testing (8 dots)
- Experiment with technologies in my own class
- Strong support from community and BOE
- Barrier: standardized test scores. Solution: dont offer the tests, but do offer a philosophy for what youre doing
- Make colleagues put emphasis on portfolios instead of test scores
Staffing (6 dots)
- Each discipline should have a staff developer to help with project based learning
- Fire staff who do not use technology
- To overcome barriers, increase support
- Mew staff hires- passion and love of technology
1:1 (1 dot)
- Innovative ideas. Encourage an open campus for 1 to 1 computer initiative
- Give each student a laptop of netbook with internet access
Students (11 dots)
- Teachers should tap into students knowledge to allow student to student teaching
- Teachers are taking the time to learn new teaching methods to engage students
- Model and demonstrate effective tech teaching tools by allowing students to comment on what they learned via video
- Process needs to be as valued as product
- Replace, dont add on technology, trust that it will be effective
- Set up "student voices" venue where people (teachers and admin and community) hear what they need
- Let students present to faculty what technology helps them learn and understand
- Wiki like game questions. Involve students to harness and share ideas. (about literature, history). James Paul Gee`s What Video Games Can Teach Us About Literature and Learning
- Barrier: Not enough time to learn all technologies. Solution: Assign a project to the class where they use this technology and have them work on it as a group. But have a back-up plan
- Put students on curriculum development committees
- Proactive creative solution. Barrier: demanding curriculum. Solution: Choose parts of curriculum that are most difficult but critical to master and which can be learned without a lot of support
Scheduling (1 dot)
- Experiment with creative scheduling
- Co-teaching opportunities gives everyone (all teachers) more confidence
- School schedule has to have time incorporated (for teachers and students) to incorporate technology into and subject
Resources (13 dots)
- Open little blocking
- Create a website that has FREE TOOLS available
- PTA and district foundation support tech
- District has purchased SLIPS to encourage tech usage
- Google apps.
- Infrastructure in place but safety concerns limit
- Burn books, buy iPads
- Remove internet filters
- Adopting new/current technologies within the building
- 1:1 computers
- Working: my classroom is loaded with hardware and internet so access is not a big issue
- School boards who financially support the plan for when tech eventually becomes obsolete
- Overall Barriers: Increase the budget for resources needed
- Wealth of resources
Vision (10 dots)
- The district redid mission statement for focus on 21st century skills
- Create a parent/student school board/admin/faculty tech group
- Give teachers the tools- i Phonts, Netbooks, Flips, etc. let them use at home for personal reason->transfer to classroom
- Meet with evaluating administrator in beginning of evaluation year to discuss and create a new rubric for evaluating technology
- Barrier: Lack of motivation. Solution: Show pepole how it can make their lives easier (increases efficiency)
- Innovative: Make a motivation- a video that includes students being engaged in learning with a web 2.0 tool and bribe/beg to have it posted on the district site Front and Center!
- Individuals can encourage new ideas. Extra credit for trying Prezi instead of power point. Teachers can share their mistakes "all in the learning state"
Community (16 dots)
- Commit to greater cross-district collaboration
- Network with more people outside region
- The enthusiasm of a pocket of teachers seems to be contagious
- Build regional teams designed as ongoing sustainable learning teams
- Seek out other schools outside of U.S for ideas
- Teacher led- student groups. Cost nothing, but offer credit incentives
- Teachers can tap into their personal network to find companies who might be able to help $
- What is working now?- Collaboration among teachers
- Work with school community to identify measures of school success that demote 21st century learning
- The individual at a faculty meeting suggest that everyone go see the cool project
- Reserve time at every faculty meeting to share exemplary student work
- Barrier: Threatened coworkers. Solution: be open and enthusiastic. Convince others that you believe in the value of what youre doing, and are willing to talk and share
- Individuals can share to motivate others
- I can share
- Teachers who "get it" are sharing
- Creative, thoughtful sharing of ideas with colleagues across grade levels and curriculum areas
- Classrooms open for colleagues to visit
- Individuals can mentor others who are skeptical about 21st century skills
- As an individual, pass on one tech idea to your community (colleague, team, school, etc)
- Individual sharing of success
- Take it upon myself to utilize tech tools and discuss with teachers at all opportunities (faculty lounge, faculty meetings, etc)
Leadership (17 dots)
- Hire new teachers with tech background
- Create models of what "it" might look like. Classrooms, schools, districts
- State standardized test need to include technology into the curriculum
- Create non standardized courses that are attractive to college-bound community
- Atmosphere of trust, collaboration, and sharing
- Give incentives for devising creative ideas. Using of new stuff
- Be involved in decision making groups where i can impact change
- Support each other
- Reward teachers for developing and sharing innovative instructional strategies
- Set up leadership focus groups and forums to find ways to breakdown barriers
- Support from admin
- Administrators need to get in touch with what is being taught and how. They should lead the way in 21st century skills
- Remove fear from the picture
Shifts/Culture (24 dots)
- More teachers are using mobile lab with whole classrooms
- Restructuring the class schedule
- Curriculum can be viewed and used as "living documents"
- Bring student work with technology to Albany
- Redefine the boundaries of where "class" occurs
- Eliminate geographic structures location based
- Focus on the positive
- Dont give up keep pushing ahead
- Individual can take risks
- People are trying new "tools" each day
- "Dont hate", kids say it, adults do it,
- Get students opinions
- The "transformed" must lead by example and evanglicize
- Schools need to make time for teachers to meet as a planning team in order to collaborate and share best practices
- Teachers who feel free to share and model what they do yet opening themselves up to criticism
Professional Development (18 dots)
- Restructure staff development by valuing other opportunities than in-services
- Develop a tech team from 1 member of each dept
- Differentiate PD
- Individual just go out htere and learn one new web 2.0 tool/platform
- Set up peer review process where teachers have time to learn together- foster motivation
- Immersive clago visitors- PD0 full day- teacher choice
- Collaborate: create a PLN
- Provide for opportunities for teachers to talk to one another- share great ideas
- Barrier: staff is not tech savvy. Solution: give them opportunities/force them to visit innovative classrooms and provide professional development
- Faculty meetings should be more focused on doing practical hands on curricuklum development. Email to disseminate info
- District is dedicated to tech PD day in November
Testing (8 dots)
- Experiment with technologies in my own class
- Strong support from community and BOE
- Barrier: standardized test scores. Solution: dont offer the tests, but do offer a philosophy for what youre doing
- Make colleagues put emphasis on portfolios instead of test scores
Staffing (6 dots)
- Each discipline should have a staff developer to help with project based learning
- Fire staff who do not use technology
- To overcome barriers, increase support
- Mew staff hires- passion and love of technology
1:1 (1 dot)
- Innovative ideas. Encourage an open campus for 1 to 1 computer initiative
- Give each student a laptop of netbook with internet access
Students (11 dots)
- Teachers should tap into students knowledge to allow student to student teaching
- Teachers are taking the time to learn new teaching methods to engage students
- Model and demonstrate effective tech teaching tools by allowing students to comment on what they learned via video
- Process needs to be as valued as product
- Replace, dont add on technology, trust that it will be effective
- Set up "student voices" venue where people (teachers and admin and community) hear what they need
- Let students present to faculty what technology helps them learn and understand
- Wiki like game questions. Involve students to harness and share ideas. (about literature, history). James Paul Gee`s What Video Games Can Teach Us About Literature and Learning
- Barrier: Not enough time to learn all technologies. Solution: Assign a project to the class where they use this technology and have them work on it as a group. But have a back-up plan
- Put students on curriculum development committees
- Proactive creative solution. Barrier: demanding curriculum. Solution: Choose parts of curriculum that are most difficult but critical to master and which can be learned without a lot of support
Scheduling (1 dot)
- Experiment with creative scheduling
- Co-teaching opportunities gives everyone (all teachers) more confidence
- School schedule has to have time incorporated (for teachers and students) to incorporate technology into and subject
Resources (13 dots)
- Open little blocking
- Create a website that has FREE TOOLS available
- PTA and district foundation support tech
- District has purchased SLIPS to encourage tech usage
- Google apps.
- Infrastructure in place but safety concerns limit
- Burn books, buy iPads
- Remove internet filters
- Adopting new/current technologies within the building
- 1:1 computers
- Working: my classroom is loaded with hardware and internet so access is not a big issue
- School boards who financially support the plan for when tech eventually becomes obsolete
- Overall Barriers: Increase the budget for resources needed
- Wealth of resources
Vision (10 dots)
- The district redid mission statement for focus on 21st century skills
- Create a parent/student school board/admin/faculty tech group
- Give teachers the tools- i Phonts, Netbooks, Flips, etc. let them use at home for personal reason->transfer to classroom
- Meet with evaluating administrator in beginning of evaluation year to discuss and create a new rubric for evaluating technology
- Barrier: Lack of motivation. Solution: Show pepole how it can make their lives easier (increases efficiency)
- Innovative: Make a motivation- a video that includes students being engaged in learning with a web 2.0 tool and bribe/beg to have it posted on the district site Front and Center!
- Individuals can encourage new ideas. Extra credit for trying Prezi instead of power point. Teachers can share their mistakes "all in the learning state"